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- Comments to New York DEC on the Value of Carbon – …(DEC) has adopted a damage-cost approach to valuing carbon dioxide pollution. We submitted comments on the DEC's draft guidance supporting the policy. Our comments also raise points about the appropriate use of discount rates, calculating damages for other greenhouse gases, inclusion of co-benefits in analysis, and further considerations for a…
- Federal Judge Halts Biden Admin From Using Social Cost of Carbon – "This injunction is extraordinarily broad," Max Sarinsky, an attorney at the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU Law School, told Axios. "I think it will receive very, very close scrutiny on appeal."
- The WSJ Wouldn’t Print This Response to its Social Cost of Carbon Editorial – This paper’s recent editorial inappropriately maligns the federal government’s valuation of the harm caused by climate pollution as politically motivated.
- Foreign Action, Domestic Windfall – Global actions on climate change have already helped the United States avoid more than $200 billion in direct economic damage. Trillions of dollars more for the United States are at stake in securing commitments for future emissions reductions from foreign countries.
- Colorado Senate Testimony on the Social Cost of Carbon – …PUC to weigh the social costs of pollution in its decisions. Coloradoans, he explained, are paying the costs of climate pollution in the form of more dangerous wildfires, agricultural damages, declining snowpack, and a range of severe health effects. Many of these important costs can be quantified. In his testimony,…
- ‘CLEAR Act’ gains attention, good and bad, as climate bills race for finish – The Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University Law School contends in an analysis that the “CLEAR Act” sponsored by Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) could help businesses diminish greenhouse gas emissions more affordably by establishing a nationwide price on carbon. (Subscription required.)
- Comments to FERC on Jordan Cove Natural Gas Project – We submitted joint comments to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on its environmental assessment of the Jordan Cove natural gas exports project in Oregon. FERC failed to provide a meaningful analysis of the pipeline’s climate effects.
- Testimony on Retirement of the San Juan Coal-Fired Power Plant – …plant in New Mexico. Their testimony details how applying Social Cost of Carbon metrics would allow the Commission to better monetize and contextualize the climate impacts of the proposal. Retiring the San Juan coal units would deliver billions of dollars in benefits to agricultural productivity, property values, and human health.
- Amicus Brief in Rio Grande LNG Case – …FERC’s failure to monetize the project’s climate damages using Social Cost of Carbon estimates is arbitrary.
- Comments to FERC on the North Baja Xpress Project – …their impacts using the social cost of carbon. In our August 2021 follow up letter responding to FERC's draft environmental impact statement for the project, we note that the Commission has taken the helpful steps of quantifying direct and downstream emissions, but should still quantify upstream emissions, assess the project's…